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Posted April 2008
Sail through copyright issues with new Image Bank
 

Have you ever created a PowerPoint presentation, or other file to share, and wanted to jazz it up with a photo or piece of clipart? If you use the clipart built into Microsoft Word or images you find on the internet, you could be infringing copyright.

Image Bank picture

The Curriculum Exchange resource centre's new Image Bank is the solution. It's a collection of quality, copyright-cleared images selected with teachers and students in mind. In fact, Queensland teachers and students created many of the available images. As long as you use the images in Image bank for educational purposes, you won't infringe copyright.

There are 225 images currently available and soon that number will total 550, with lots more to come. Image bank is one of a number of new features now available in the Curriculum Exchange. Among these are new look resource summaries.

When you browse Curriculum Exchange resources, you will now find curriculum information in an easier to read format. And when searching for resources, you can sort results in groupings of 10, 50 or 100 a page. Search terms will be highlighted in yellow, and links to similar resources will appear, helping you locate them faster. Also, you now can save search results, using the Power Search function. This does away with the need to search for the same resources more than once.

These are the first of many enhancements that will make the Curriculum Exchange an even more essential tool for 21st Century learning.

Image Bank summary
An example of an Image Bank summary in the CX website.

 

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